GeoStyler - Support for ArcGIS and other new Features

Jan Suleiman, terrestris GmbH & Co. KG

FOSS4G Europe 2025, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina

Jan Suleiman

suleiman@terrestris.de
@jansule

M.Sc. Geoinformatics
Full-Stack Developer
@terrestris, Bonn, Germany
OSGeo Charter Member
GeoStyler Core Developer
Superset Plugin Developer

Content

Support for ArcGIS
GeoStyler Rest + OGC API Styles
OpenLayers Flat Styles
Other news

Link to slides:
https://terrestris.github.io/foss4g-e-2025/talks/2025-07-18-suleiman-geostyler.html

What is GeoStyler?

Support for ArcGIS

Repository: geostyler/geostyler-lyrx-parser
Based on GeoCat/bridge-style
Features

Polygons
Lines
Points
Labels
Marks
Hatching
...

Limitations

.lyrx only
read only

Kudos to Benjamin, Wolfgang, Myriam, Thomas, Eva, Balz!

Support for ArcGIS

Now usable with with all GeoStyler tools

OGC API Styles

OGC API Styles^Draft API for managing and fetching style documents

Main concepts

Style as main resource
Multiple stylesheets per style
Style metadata

Benefits

Interoperability
Automation
Centralized style management

OGC API Styles

OGC API Styles^Draft API for managing and fetching style documents

Main concepts

Style as main resource
Multiple stylesheets per style
Style metadata

Benefits

Interoperability
Automation
Centralized style management

GeoStyler REST + OGC API Styles

GET rest.geostyler.org/ogc/styles | Accept: application/json

                {
  "styles": [
    {
      "id": "population_quantiles",
      "title": "population_quantiles",
      "links": [
        {
          "href": "http://rest.geostyler.org/ogc/styles/population_quantiles?f=sld10",
          "type": "application/vnd.ogc.sld+xml;version=1.0",
          "rel": "stylesheet"
        },
        {
          "href": "http://rest.geostyler.org/ogc/styles/population_quantiles?f=sld11",
          "type": "application/vnd.ogc.sld+xml;version=1.1",
          "rel": "stylesheet"
        },
        {
          "href": "http://rest.geostyler.org/ogc/styles/population_quantiles?f=lyrx",
          "type": "application/x-esri-lyrx",
          "rel": "stylesheet"
        },
        {
          "href": "http://rest.geostyler.org/ogc/styles/population_quantiles?f=mapbox",
          "type": "application/vnd.mapbox.style+json",
          "rel": "stylesheet"
        },
        {
          "href": "http://rest.geostyler.org/ogc/styles/population_quantiles?f=qgis",
          "type": "application/vnd.qgis.style+xml",
          "rel": "stylesheet"
        },
        {
          "href": "http://rest.geostyler.org/ogc/styles/population_quantiles?f=geostyler",
          "type": "application/vnd.geostyler+json",
          "rel": "stylesheet"
        },
        {
          "href": "http://rest.geostyler.org/ogc/styles/population_quantiles/metadata?f=json",
          "type": "application/json",
          "rel": "describedBy"
        }
      ]   
    }
  ]
}